Coming Soon: Ring.to a new OBiTALK ASP with Absolutely FREE Calling!
Dean:
If its free forever why not buy a new obi100 and use it? Your talking $37.98 at Amazon
yosif:
Quote from: Dean on May 16, 2014, 01:43:15 pm
If its free forever why not buy a new obi100 and use it? Your talking $37.98 at Amazon
Maybe. Or maybe the old box will work as well. We will know when ring.to will finish integration with Obihai in a few weeks.
ipse:
Quote from: Dean on May 16, 2014, 01:43:15 pm
If its free forever why not buy a new obi100 and use it? Your talking $37.98 at Amazon
Sorry, this is completely BACKWARDS: when I (alongside many of the current forum members) bought the Obixxx devices, we were sold a device that WORKS with Google Voice. As a matter of fact, Obihai painted this feature as the big differentiator between them and the cheap Chinese PAP2T clones that flood eBay.
So don't ask me to buy a NEW device when (and IF) GV ceases to work on Obi. I expect Obihai to own up and offer a solution to fill the gap left by Google retiring the current implementation of GV.
This might be an academic discussion in the end, but I find the approach typical for companies who don't care about their customers once they got ahold of their credit card #.
Sadly, the complete lack of Obihai presence in this forum is another indication the assumption might be right.
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Kage:
This is just speculation on my part but I would imagine that a firmware update would be all it takes to make this new service work on older models. For Obihai to force long time customers to purchase a whole new box would be bad PR and not customer friendly.
nitzan:
Quote from: ipse on May 16, 2014, 02:26:47 pm
This might be an academic discussion in the end, but I find the approach typical for companies who don't care about their customers once they got ahold of their credit card #.
But see.. you're NOT their customer. It's people who are going to buy new Obi's that are their customers now... obviously it's a move to force people to buy a new device (more $$$ to Obihai) if they want to use ring.to. May piss a lot of people off, but good for business.
Quote from: Dean on May 16, 2014, 01:43:15 pm
If its free forever why not buy a new obi100 and use it? Your talking $37.98 at Amazon
Who said anything about "forever"? Bandwidth (ring.to) already indicated it's not going to be free forever, see: https://bandwidth.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/365611-how-can-ringto-be-free-are-you-loading-this-up-wi
Also their terms of service has a "fees" clause and specifically says they can change/increase fees at any point with a 30 day notice.
IMHO the only thing "free" about this offer is "free marketing". Watch them get a ton of users then bam! come the fees. Sadly a lot of people will still do it anyway because, uhh, free!
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